Activity Dictionary Work:
Look up the following words in your dictionary: commandant, varnished, commented, enunciating, precisely, deliberately, introduction, resolved, fragment. Write down their meanings and use them in sentences to show you understand them. ( write the definitions in ur own words.)

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

He contains the main idea in a paragraph. a. thesis statement b. first sentence c. declarative statement d. topic sentence

What two parts of this passage contain a biblical allusion beowulf